Aqua Grace Kelly Style Dress (work in progress)

Description

I recently went to a Grace Kelly exhibition at the Victoria & Albert Museum and fell in-love all over again with the style of that era. I have looked for a vintage pattern to make this dress, but all the ones I could find were extremely expensive, so I have been thinking and thinking until I realised that this needn’t be as complicated as I was making it. I used a bit of muslin fabric and draped and cut the bodice for the top dress on my dummy. For the under-dress, I used a bodice from another pattern I have and a simple A-line lining and soft net on top.

I’m waiting for some materials to finish it (thread, boning for the bodice and zipper), but couldn’t wait to put it up here – like a child really :-).

I made a flower with the netting which has some sparkles on it, though it doesn’t show on the photos. I’ll publish the finished photos sometime soon.

Material Notes

Voile fabric, taffeta lining, studded soft netting, self made flower

Difficulty

Intermediate

Categories

oh, also so beautiful. i love this style of dress so much, and i can understand how excited you must be about it, because it’s fantastic!!! i think i could see this dress from the outside of exhibition and it is just magical. enjoy finishing it and can’t wait to see the finished product!!

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